Benefits and Challenges of using open educational resources

1. OERs
Benefits and
Challenges
By Sharon Raz, Ph.D.

2. Open Educational Resources (OERs)
Open educational resources (OER) are freely accessible, openly
licensed documents and media that are useful for teaching, learning, and
assessing as well as for research purposes (Wikipedia).

3. What Are The Benefits Of Using OERs?
• Saving costs for students and faculty
• Allowing Access to different populations
that otherwise wouldn’t have access to
higher education resources
• Allowing peer review to variety of
educational resources
• Creating more visibility for educational
resources
• Encouraging professional development
to students and faculty

4. Saving Costs
Students
Faculty

5. Allowing Access For Different
Populations

6. Allowing Peer Review

7. Visibility

8. professional development

9. What Are The Challenges Of Using
OERs?
• Ensuring the quality of educational
materials
• Finding sufficient funding
• Time consuming - Adding a burden to
the educators who now have to find
their own reaching materials
• Lack of stuff and faculty awareness
• Change is always a struggle!!!
Sometimes it takes a long time to make
a change in a formal organizational
system.

10. Quality of Educational Materials

11. Funding

12. Time consuming

13. Lack of Awareness

14. Change is Always a Struggle!!!